Wireless data broadcast allows a large number of users to retrieve data simultaneously in mobile databases, resulting in an efficient way of using the scarce wireless bandwidth. The efficiency of data access methods, however, is limited by an inherent property that users can only access data strictly sequential. In a wireless broadcast environment, mechanisms to efficiently transmit information to mobile ...

Buxton and Muller Presentations Recapped and Illustrated Bill Buxton discussed "surface computing" -- large flat touch-sensitive displays mounted on a wall or used as interactive tables that will be integrated into our work and living environments much like furniture or art. New developments in large inexpensive display technologies empower this emerging type of computational device. Mike Muller commented on the ...

California like the entire nation is aging. There are 4.3 million Californians 65 and older accounting for about 11% of the total state population. We also find that 58% of older adults have high blood pressure; about 21% have been told that they have diabetes. California in particular has the highest incidence of new diabetes cases and nearly 4 million ...

The 24th International Conference on Microelectronics (MIEL 2004) was held 16-19 May 2004 at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Serbia and Montenegro. The conference was organized by the Yugoslavia IEEE Section and ED/SSC Chapter, in cooperation with Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Ei-Holding Company-Nis, and under the auspices of the Serbian Ministry of Science and Environment Protection, ...